Michael Bobelian
Author & Journalist
Features & Long-form
Vartkes's List (Legal Affairs Magazine)
Inside America's Homegrown Nazis during WWII
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
A Mistake in the Early 1970s Still Haunts Supreme Court Ethics (Time Magazine)
Liberal Blunders Handed the Right the Supreme Court (Time Magazine)
Super Chief (History News Network)
Bitcoin Challenges Regulators (California Lawyer Magazine - Cover Story)
Uncommon Carriers (California Lawyer Magazine - Cover Story)
Private Lessons - Funding UC Berkeley's Law School (American Lawyer Magazine)
Supreme Court
Op-Ed: Bitter Supreme Court Nominations (LA Times)
Op-Ed: Why Biden Should Look Beyond the Judiciary for his Supreme Court Nominee (LA Times)
The Supreme Court's Reliance on 'Historical Analysis' Could Overturn Other Landmark Precedents
Fixing Congress Will Go a Long Way in Resolving Many of the Problems Ailing the Supreme Court
The Precedent to Block Scalia's Replacement
Trump Fashions a Business Friendly Supreme Court
Kavanaugh's Partisan Confirmation Vote
Skeptical Justices Scrutinize Health Care Law
Four Things to Take Away from the ACA's Arguments
What The Health Care Ruling Tells Us About Roberts
Book Reviews
Jill Lepore We the People (Washington Post - Book World Cover Story)
Rick Perlstein Reaganland (Washington Post)
Robert Caro Working (National Book Review)
Michael Shermer & Thane Rosenbaum on the Free Speech Dilemma (Washington Post)
Jeffrey Frank Trials of Harry Truman (Washington Post)
Jill Abramson Merchants of Truth (LA Times)
Robert McElvaine The Times They Were a-Changin (Washington Post)
Ronald Suny A Question of Genocide (H-Net)
Peter Canellos Great Dissenter (Washington Post)
Judge Jed Rakoff Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty go Free (Washington Post)
Heather Ann Thompson & Elliot Williams on the Bernhard Goetz Shooting (Washington Post)
Cliff Sloan The Court at War (Washington Post)
Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon (Washington Post - Book World Cover Story)
E.J. Dionne Why the Right Went Wrong (LA Times)
Michelle Adams The Containment (Washington Post)
Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe When McKinsey Comes to Town (Washington Post)
James Simon FDR & Chief Justice Hughes (Forbes.com)
Nicole Hemmer Partisans (Washington Post)
A Literary Conversation Among Generations: A Guide to Armenian American Literature (Ararat Magazine)
Wil Haygood Showdown (LA Times)
Rick Perlstein Invisible Bridge (Forbes.com)
Geoffrey Cowan Let the People Rule
Laurence Jurdem The Rough Rider & the Professor (Washington Post)
Jeffrey Frank Ike & Dick (Forbes.com)
Eric Bogosian Operation Nemesis (LA Times)